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13 Feb 2016

Woman in a Yurt Video Diary 23 – Off With the Faeries?

by Francesca Cassini | posted in: 60 is the new 21, Bolder not Older, Communing with Nature, Nature, Wintering in a Yurt Video Diary | 0

When we surrender to love, we’re supported by life. I have always wanted to believe that and at last I get that I’m well and truly living it. These last three months in the yurt have been a great hibernation … Continued

27 Jan 2016

Woman in a Yurt Video Diary 22 – Stormed Out!!

by Francesca Cassini | posted in: 60 is the new 21, Bolder not Older, Nature, Wintering in a Yurt Video Diary | 2

I was in the grip of one of the worlds magnificent untameable beasts as I walked in to Llani to get to the The Red Lion with its warm online environment and great lunch… what I hadn’t thought about was … Continued

16 Jan 2016

Woman in a Yurt Video Diary 20 – Elemental!

by Francesca Cassini | posted in: 60 is the new 21, Bolder not Older, Communing with Nature, Nature, Wintering in a Yurt Video Diary | 6

Wild and elemental – that’s always been my favourite landscape although in the last couple of years I’ve been more drawn to the curvaceousness of Dorset and Wiltshire and now the beautiful rich ripeness of Powys. It must be the … Continued

12 Jan 2016

Woman in a Yurt Video Diary 19 – Is It All Worth It?

by Francesca Cassini | posted in: 60 is the new 21, Bolder not Older, Wintering in a Yurt Video Diary | 4

Warning lights? Why are they on? I’d just finished my online work in The Red Lion pub, a warm place with free wifi and great lunches, when the warning lights came on as I started the car. I pressed … Continued

Five Bridges, Three Frontiers and 150 Euros

‘Was the post-break-up adventure I’d embarked upon going to end in the loneliest of deaths in the middle of nowhere? Was my determination finally to live life on my own terms going to kill me as surely as Isadora Duncan’s scarf killed her?’ Sandy Locksmith

Five Bridges, Three Frontiers and 150 Euros Emerging from a fever-induced fantasy of the beginning of the world Sandy faces the shocking reality. She’s held captive by a psychopathic vagrant, imprisoned in a medieval citadel cradled deep within an empty valley in rural France, and being subjected to terrifying sexual assaults. It’s the middle of a freezing December. How did she end up in such a hopeless position and what can it take to transform it? Sandy is certain that somewhere among all the unusual experiences she’s had over the previous month lies the key to her freedom. We journey back with her to the middle of November. In her late forties, post menopausal and childless Sandy has been trying to ‘create her own reality’ for months… The first novel in the Waking The Lions trilogy.